The debut release from the London-based music and art collective Earnest Endeavours is B Bravo's 'Kiss 'n' Tell EP'. Cited by the likes of Dam-Funk as one of the driving forces of the West Coast Modern Funk Movement, his new wave, future funk and synth-heavy boogie comes loaded with guttural bass and sweaty, thickset grooves.
A core member of the Bay Area renegade bass collective Frite Nite, his low slung banger 'Computa Love', was nominated as one of Benji B's Best of 2009 selections on BBC 1Xtra. Simultaneously picked up by Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings, it was the lead 12" on the award-nominated 'Brownswood electr*c' compilation. Invited to 2010's Red Bull Music Academy in London, B Bravo then went on to headline and conquer the RBMA stage at Barcelona's Sonar Festival 2011.
Opening with the 140bpm RnB/bounce hybrid 'Kiss 'n' Tell' featuring Zackey Force Funk, 'Right On Time' nods to classic 80s funk jams of olde, blessed with The Gent$' smooth Chi-Town raps; 'Substance' balances weighty 808s and cute synth licks with Lady Alma's raw, Philly soul; and 'Swang' reps that smokey, talk box-laced, West Coast Cali bump to the fullest. In short, this soaring funk is the sound of an emerging artist confidently on the rise.
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Soundway set sail for Colombia once again, delving deeper into the South American country’s rich musical past. Boasting 55 tracks spread over two CDs and two triple LPs, ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’ is Soundway’s definitive guide to the origins of Colombian cumbia and porro and the result of five years pain staking re-search by Will ‘Quantic’ Holland.
Disc 1 tells the story of some the earliest Colombian cumbia recorded, a genre that captured a nation, spreading from its birthplace on the Caribbean coast in land to central Colombia and the capital Bogota. Disc 2 sees the evolution of cumbia. Greats of Colombian music like Alberto Pacheco, Toño Fernandez & Anibal Velasquez brought the music forward, bringing new influences and instruments to the genre. What had once been considered the music of the underclasses had risen up as the new sound of a nation.
After five years of becoming slowly submerged in Colombian musical culture, learning the accordion, setting up a band and a studio, and scouring the country in search it’s recorded legacy, Will ‘Quantic’ Holland (Quantic Soul Orchestra & Quantic y su Combo Barbaro) has compiled the fruits of his labour into this unique compilation that tells the story of cumbia in the years of the phonograph record’s supremacy. Along with good friend and head of Soundway Records, Miles Cletet, Will Holland has condensed hundreds of 78s, 45s and LPs into just over two and a half hours of the finest Colombian cumbia.
Both vinyl editions come with a bonus track and are limited to 1500 copies.
Tracklist
Disc 1 / SNDWLP032A
1. Gastón (El Isleño) con El Conjunto de Jaime Simanca – La Cumbia Está Llamando
2. Conjunto Los Rumberos – Cumbia del Puerto
3. Lucho Peréz – Judith
4. Alberto Pacheco y su Conjunto – Sembrando Café
5. Rafeal Yepes Crespo con sus Negros de la Región – Nubia en la Playa
6. Santander Flores – Capital Cebuista
7. Ruffo Garrido y su Conjunto – El Pájaro Prieto
8. Conjunto Ritmos del Caribe – La Fullera
9. Anibal Velásquez y Su Conjunto – San Jacinto
10. Orquesta Ritmos de Sabanas – Montería
11. Baldomero Urieles con Efrian Burgos y su Conjunto – Amor del Magdalena
12. Los Alegres del Valle – Samaria
13. Conjunto Martínez – Cumbia Fonsequera
14. Silvio Guzman y Conjunto Jose M. Peñaranda – Canto a Betty
15. Pedro Salcedo y su Orquesta – La Vaca y El Caporal
16. Los Alegres Bucaneros – Cumbia Bucanera
17. Gildardo Montoya y Conjunto Los Rumberos – Fabiola
18. Guillermo Munoz y Conjunto Típico del Magdalena – Cumbia de Todos
19. Cresencio Salcedo – Me Quedo con el Viejo
20. Lalito y Conjunto Colombia – Flores de Colombia
21. Nacho Paredes con Los Vaqueros Sabaneros – Dulce Lamento
22. Los Ases del Ritmo – La Margarita
23. Emiro Caicedo y su Combo – Los Cumbiamberos
24. Hugo Racedo y su Conjunto – Cumbia del Magdalena
25. Trio Serenata – Cumbia Sobre El Mar
26. Los Indígenas – Sangre Goajira
27. Toño Fernandez – La Muerte
28. Los Hermanitos Ferreyra – Cumbia del Mar
Vinyl bonus track
Angel Martinez con Los Sabaneros – Cumbia Alegre
Disc 2 / SNDWLP032B
1. Betopey – Cumbia del Carnaval
2. Conjunto Miramar – Reina de Cumbias
3. Los Cumbiamberos de Chorrera – La Millera
4. Andrés Landero – Rosa y Mayo
5. Los Tigres con Morgan Blanco – La Culebra
6. La Cumbia Soledeña – Tambo, Tambo
7. Jaime Simanca y sus Fandangueros – Cumbia Negra
8. Aniceto Molina y su Conjunto – Cumbia Candela
9.Banda Bajera de San Pelayo – Descarga en Cumbia
10. Alberto Pacheco – Guayabita Colorá
11. Banda 11 de Enero de Murillo – La Cachona
12. Lucho Campillo y su Conjunto – Rastrillando
13. Carlos Román – El 4 y 5
14. Banda 2da de Laguneta Córdoba – Tracionera
15. Satanás y su Grupo – Cumbia de La Montaña
16. Toño Fernández – La Guacharaca
17. Lucho Yepez – La Gaita del Pato
18. El Pholy Combo – El Porro es Hermano De La Cumbia
19. Grupo Costa Brava – A Baranoa
20. Elías Morón y su Conjunto Vallenato – Playas Embrujadas
21. Chico Cervantes – Cumbia Colombia
22. Anibal Velásquez y su Conjunto – Cumbia Bogotana
23. Alfonso Puerta y su Conjunto – Pescadores del Mar
24. Miguel Durán – Elionora
25. Celia Estremor y su Grupo de Baile Cantao – El Secuestro
26. Hermanos Tuiran – Lluvia
27. Unknown – El Niño Llora
Grooveman Spot @ The TurnaroundFri 2nd Dec @ Bacco Room, 53 Nelson St, AK City Hosted By Manuel Bundy, Submariner & CianTickets $20+BF from Conch Records, 115A Ponsonby Rd
Multi-instrumentalist, arranger and vocalist Jonti began assembling music after his departure from South Africa to Australia. Spending countless hours studying records like they were books, processing each song, this became Jonti’s music school, testing his theories on a 4-track recorder.
Jonti is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger and vocalist working in Australia. He has recorded with Mark Ronson, Santigold, Sean Lennon and the Dap-Kings. For Jonti’s debut album, coming this fall on Stones Throw, he went the opposite route - doing everything himself start to finish.
The Jukebox Jam club night began in Summer 2007 as a raucous monthly celebration of authentic US Rhythm & Blues of yesteryear. Two years later, the club's founder Liam Large linked up with Jazzman to release high-quality, short-run 7" singles of the often obscure R&B music which the club continues to thrive on. Jazzman had already carved a niche for itself with the label's many soul, funk n' jazz 45s, but here was the opportunity to work a new furrow in vintage Black American music, turning an already clued-up and tuned-in client base of hipsters, diggers and full-on record nerds on to the seemingly endless charms of Rockin' Blues, Greasy R&B, Jump Blues and Popcorn.
Just as the Jukebox Jam club itself saw a fair few copycat enterprises spring forward in its wake, the label itself has been similarly influential in shaping the tastes of those who were yet to be introduced to the vast R&B reservoir, as well as sharpening and widening the palette's of the more journeyed enthusiast. This is due largely to the careful selection and programming of releases. Not merely picking the records with the most obvious crowd potential, the Jukebox Jam releases have often traded liberally in the unexpected and the unique.
This album is the first full length volume in the series. Founder and DJ Liam Large pulls together some selections from the 45 series and adds a further 8 songs. It's a set which manages to be both diverse and yet totally coherent in spectrum. There are a few sombre, downbeat moments here, but even these come with a seductive groove and finger-snapping back beat and overall this is a selection very much geared, like the club itself, to get your pulse rising and feet jumping.
" 22 songs on a double LP/single CD
" CD with extensive original liner notes
" LP with fold-out booklet inside AND a free A3 size colour Jukebox Jam poster!
" Never-before-seen pictures, photos and images
" RARE and FINE music heard only on Jazzman - all because WE DIG DEEPER!
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